Is Housing Reform Necessary?

Lesson 20 Is Housing Reform Necessary? Text Housing Reform Faces Obstacles Housing reform, acknowledged by economists and politicians at home and abroad as central to China's economic reform, has reac

沪教版牛津小学英语三年级下--Unit 3 Touching and

Unit 3 Touching and feeling [00:20.14]Look and learn [00:22.36]soft hard rough smooth [00:42.81]Look and say [00:46.13]Touch this. [00:48.59]How does it feel?It's hard.It's rough [00:56.16]What is it?It's a biscuit!Touch this. [01:04.55]How does it f

沪教版牛津小学英语四年级下--Unit 4

Unit 4 [00:19.36]What can you smell and taste? [00:22.18]Read and answer [00:24.71]Ben's friend [00:27.04]This is David.He cannot see.He is blind. [00:36.02]He can hear.He can touch.He can feel.He can smell.He can taste. [00:50.73]I can smell oranges

蒋健棠英语实用句子(117):They ventured out on the rough sea to rescue the victims.

They ventured out on the rough sea to rescue the victims. 他们冒险到波涛汹涌的海上去救遇难者。 venture,作名词时表示冒险，冒险行为；作动词时表示冒险。 The children ventured out on the thin ice and fell through.

英语四级作文 Housing Problem

Direction:For this part,you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition in three paragraphs.You are given the first sentence of the three paragrapgs.Your part of the composition should be no less than 100 words,not including the words given.Remembe

VOA标准英语2009年-High Cost of Housing in US, Unable to

Millions of Americans have been unable to pay the mortgage on their houses and have had to leave them. Many are now renting, but are finding it difficult financially Owning your home was once part of the American dream. But that dream has faded becau

美国国家公共电台 NPR The New Housing Crisis: Shut Out Of The Market

NOEL KING, HOST: Ten years after the housing market collapsed, a different crisis has emerged. Back then, a decade ago, lots of people were losing their homes. Today people who want to buy or in a lot of cases even just rent are being priced out of t

美国国家公共电台 NPR Rural America Faces A Crisis In 'Adequate Housing'

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Home prices are skyrocketing in some places that might surprise you, including remote towns in rural America. And the problems facing those places may be especially hard to solve. As part of our series on the new housing crisis, NP

英语新闻视频 China pushes low-rent housing

Affordable housing is one of the main goals of the government's policy of building a housing security system. In the last five years, 270,000 low-income families have been given access to low-rent housing. It appears that low-income families just ca

每天三分钟学英语 第187期:Rough的用法

情景对话： Howard: Doesn't Professor Abbott's family want any of this stuff? Abbot教授的家人不想要这些东西吗？ Leonard: I don't think he had a family. 他没有家人。 Raj: That's rough. 真是惨啊。 1、Rough 粗糙 例句：

China allocates 20,000 hectares for low-income housing

BEIJING, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- China has allocated more than 20,000 hectares of land to support the construction of low-income housing this year, an official with the Ministry of Land and Resources said Tuesday. The nation plans to distribute 47,600 hec

VOA常速英语2007年-No Green, All Rough!

By Rahim Gul Sarwan Kabul, Afghanistan 04 December 2007 Brown and full of weeds, Afghanistan's only golf course is a symbol of survival. Once an oasis, today it shows the scars from decades of war. Now, six years after the fall of the Taliban, the po

China urges expanded financing for affordable housing

BEIJING, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) -- China is encouraging local governments to make full use of their financing vehicles in 2012 in an effort to boost financial support for low-income housing projects, the country's top economic planner said Monday. The cent

2.96 bln yuan misused in affordable housing

BEIJING, June 27 (Xinhua) -- China's top auditor said on Wednesday that 2.96 billion yuan (470 million U.S. dollars) earmarked for affordable housing programs was intercepted or embezzled last year. The report was based on auditing in 66 cities and c

China to regulate housing file management

BEIJING, Nov. 13 (Xinhua) -- China will next year introduce a regulation to better manage the housing files of the country in terms of resources and applicants, according to an official announcement on Tuesday. The announcement, posted on the website

英闻天下——147 A Look at Housing in Third-tier Cities

China's real estate market in major cities is warming up, with home prices rising, and more people buying new apartments. However, this is not the case across the country. In smaller cities, real estate agents are finding it increasingly difficult to

China starts construction on 5.8 mln low-income housing units

BEIJING, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- China started building 5.8 million low-income housing units in the first seven months of this year, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development said Friday. Construction on 3.6 million affordable homes has been ba

China to continue regulating land supply for housing construction

BEIJING, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) -- China will continue its regulation of land supply for housing use in 2013 to promote the stability of land market and healthy economic growth, a senior land and resources official said on Friday. Xu Shaoshi, minister of l

Chinese banks to hold differentiated housing loans

BEIJING, March 1 (Xinhua) -- China's four biggest state-owned banks said Thursday they will continue implementing the differentiated housing loan policy. The four state-run lenders, dubbed the Big Four, are Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Ch

经济学人242:露宿街头 房子的救赎

Rough sleeping 露宿街头 One home at a time 房子的救赎 How to cut the number of street dwellersand save money, too 减少倒卧，节约开支 HANDING a homeless alcoholic the keys to a free furnished flat may seem foolish, unfair or both. Th